Letter from Joseph M. Harvey, Limerick, relating to the petition for leave to present a bill for a City Hospital and the generosity of the Barrington family; and the potential suspension of works on Wellesley Bridge [now Sarsfield Bridge] and Docks owing to a lack of funds. The letter also discusses bridge design and the inspection by James Pain of the bridge drawings by Henry Baker, Inspecting Engineer.
Rice, Thomas Spring, 1st Baron Monteagle of BrandonLetter from Joseph M. Harvey, Limerick, relating to the renewal of the act for the turnpike road from Newcastle to Limerick and Charleville, and the possibility of widening the existing entrance from Ballynacurra turnpike into Newtownpery. The letter also outlines Richard Griffith’s original plan for the new line of road form Askeaton and its subsequent realignment.
Rice, Thomas Spring, 1st Baron Monteagle of BrandonLetter from Joseph MacDonagh, Mountjoy Prison to Miss Daly, thanking her for a cake and discussing a recent convention ‘which seems to have been a great success generally’.
Daly Family of Limerick CityLetter from Joseph MacDonagh, Mountjoy Prison to Miss Daly, correcting a rumour which he had inadvertently started.
Daly Family of Limerick CityLetter from Joseph Stock (1740-1813), bishop of Killala and Achonry to his son Henry F. Stock, 21 Temple Street, Dublin. Stock consoles his son over his proposal of marriage which has been rejected and expresses concern over Henry’s brother Charles, who was mentally fragile.
Monsell family of Tervoe, county Limerick, Barons EmlyLetter from Josephine and Roy Carter to Professor Geraldine Sheridan, enclosing P21/1/1-2 and P21/2/1-4.
De Laval family of PortarlingtonPhotocopy of a letter from Kate O’Brien, 8 Mespil Flats, Sussex Road, Dublin, to The Collector of Taxes, London 46 Collection, 120 Finchley Road, London N.W.3, regarding income tax for tax year 1962 to 1963, noting ‘…as I have written to your colleagues repeatedly, I am not resident in the British Isles. It is my intention to live there, but since I sold my house in Ireland three and a half years ago I have been in very bad circumstances; have been living as the guest of friends and relatives in Ireland or in Spain, am unable to pay rent anywhere, and earn only pittances. Until my circumstances improve I am unable to take up residence in England, as I cannot afford to rent even a bed-sitting room. I use the address, 24a Steele’s Road N.W.3 – which is the flat of a friend – for correspondence… As soon as I am able to take up residence in or near London I shall naturally make income tax returns like everyone else.’
O'Brien, Kate (1897-1974), writerLetter from Kathleen Clarke from Holloway Prison, London to her sister Agnes (Una) Daly seeking news from home, regretting that ‘little things upset one in jail, when one has nothing to do to kill time all day.’
Daly Family of Limerick CityLetter from Kathleen Clarke from Holloway Prison, London to her sister Agnes (Una) Daly relating to Madge Daly’s arrest and recalling ‘the night I went to say good-bye to Tom in Kilmainham Jail’.
Daly Family of Limerick CityLetter from Kathleen Clarke from Holloway Prison, London to her sister Agnes (Una) Daly asking for wool, thread, fabric and patterns to give her something to do.
Daly Family of Limerick City